LUKAS’ POVAll my life I had been feeling misunderstood and I felt that I needed to explain myself to Elena for her to understand why I did what I had done. She needed to understand why I had chosen to take her with me and why she had to stay with me even though she had found her mate. She still didn’t know that I knew that Damien was her mate but I was about to tell her. I wanted to explain the monster I had become first before explaining to her why I brought her here. The reason why I felt the need to explain myself was not because I was feeling bad about the things I had done to her, but because I wanted to understand why it was important to me that she stayed with me and that the safety of this baby was my priority.I didn’t owe anyone an explanation for my actions and that included Elena. As far as I was concerned, I had done what I had to do and that was nothing to be ashamed of. If I had the opportunity to do things all over again, I would probably do them the same way and I wo
ELENA’S POVI couldn’t believe the sad life that Lukas had lived, in a way I kind of felt like he was also a victim of his own father as much as Damien and his family were too. I knew that Damien would strongly disagree with this but Lukas had done what he did out of respect and love for his father. That is not to say that he was forced to do something he didn’t want to do because he seemed to be enjoying torturing other people but at the same time I felt like he was never given any other choice. I felt like Lukas embraced the life he had been given by his father maybe because he felt he didn’t have any other choice, I had never met his father, and my assumptions were only based on the short story that Lukas had given me. When I first met Lukas I never asked myself what the story behind his actions was. I always thought that he was motivated by his own guilt but I was shocked to be proven wrong.After the shocking conversation I had with Lukas I went to bed and left him on the couch.
DAMIEN’S POVI was glad that the elders agreed to meet with me even though they had accused me of wasting their time the last time I had seen them. Going into the meeting with them I wasn’t sure of what to expect because the last time I saw them they didn’t believe anything that I said to them. Lukas had managed to convince them that I was a liar and I really hoped that the idea that Charles had would work in my favor. I had no doubts that the wolf's bane would work but that didn’t stop me from worrying about something going wrong.Charles did just as he had promised me and he stayed by my side the whole time. It seemed that the elders actually believed him more than they believed me and that was because of the kind of man his father was. They seemed to be taking everything that I was saying into consideration after Charles confirmed it. I was relieved when they agreed to give me the wolfs bane and an opportunity to prove my identity and when nothing happened to me after drinking it,
LUKAS POV After sitting outside the oracle’s heart for almost an hour, I finally decided that it was best if I just went to check on the pack. I convinced myself that Elena was fine because I had checked on her before I left. Elena didn’t have a phone and had never been given one because of my trust issues. I had always been afraid that if I gave her a phone, it would make it easy for her to conspire with her family and come up with a plan to leave me. This was a decision that I was somewhat regretting now because if I had given her a phone I would be able to ask her if she was okay right now. If it wasn’t for the oracle I wouldn’t even be worried about her well-being because she was fine when I left her. The oracle had said some troubling things to me and I couldn’t help feeling a sense of doom.As I was driving to the pack something came to my mind. I knew that there was no way that Damien would have just given up on getting the throne and walked away so I was almost certain that h
LUKAS’ POVAs I drove back to the house I couldn’t help thinking back to the events of my day. none of the things that I had set outlook had turned out the way I had intended or even wanted them to go. The oracle hadn’t said or done anything that was going to help me keep my throne. She had spoken to me in parables and left me very confused. I couldn’t even believe that I had gone to her in confidence and believing that she would be able to help me. I felt like she had really wasted my time and I wished that she had told me straight up that she couldn’t help me. However, I also felt like there was no point in me to even complaining about the way she handled my consultation.Right now my main concern was getting back home and checking on Elena, I had been gone for the whole day and I knew that leaving a pregnant female wolf all on her own was very dangerous. I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if some rogue wolves had picked her scent and found her. I tried not to think negativel
ELENA’S POV I knew that I was dying, I knew something was wrong and the fact that I had even started bleeding showed me that I was right. I had to find a way to get through to Lukas and make him see that I was in too much pain and I needed help. It felt like I ws talking to a brick wall because everything I said to him didn’t seem to resonate with him. It was as if it was going in one ear and going out the other one. I couldn't understand why he was acting like he didn’t care about me. He simply refused to listen to me despite the countless times that I had begged him to let me go, I wasn’t asking him to return me back to the pack but I was simply asking him to allow me to breathe and maybe heal on my own. When I finally gave up fighting Lukas he stood up and closed the tap. My temperature had gone down but I was still feeling some excruciating pain. He put me on top of the bed as he changed his clothes and I watched him as he did so. I wondered when he would realize that this had g
DAMIEN’S POVI could feel that something was wrong, Elena might have been far away from me but I just knew that something wasn’t right. I wasn’t particularly feeling sick but my heart wasn’t settled, I was scared out of my mind just thinking of what Lukas could have been doing to her. I still didn’t know how deep his obsession with my mate and I didn’t know how far he planned to take it, all I knew was that Elena was in danger and I had to find a way to help her. We had managed to call the pack meeting and all that was left for us to do was to address them and let them know what was going on. Charles was certain that by now they had all heard of what was happening and they were probably expecting me to call a meeting and explain why I was suddenly their alpha. I hoped that they would receive me better than Mike had, I admired the loyalty Mike was showing Lukas. I felt like deep in his heart he knew that everything that we were saying about Lukas was true and yet he was just strugglin
LUKAS’ POV2I could see that I was losing Elena and there was nothing I could do to help her, the only thing that I could think of at this point that would help Elena was to go back to the oracle to try and ask her to help her. The last time I had seen her she told me that I had to make a decision and until now I didn’t know what decision that was going to be. I didn't even have time to try and figure out what she meant by that because the most pressing matter right now was getting Elena feeling better. The oracle was the only one that could heal her and the other person that could help her was Damien and I was obviously not going to go for that option. The man had already taken my place in the pack and I would be damned if he did the same in Elena’s life. Elena was my mate and there was nothing that anyone could do to separate me from her. I wasn't even going to allow death to separate us.I woke up in the morning and headed to the oracle’s shrine leaving Elena, sleeping. I hoped tha